Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.- Marshall McLuhan

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting,two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.- Lord Byron

The hard thing is to stick to things when you haveoutlived the first interest,and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.- Janet Erskine Stuart

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide,than that man who has lived many years with a goodwife and then outlived her.If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.- Ernest Hemingway

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I kept looking to do songs that were written yearsago and would live or outlive all of us,and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.- Michael Bolton

Most women outlive their spouses.Divorce remains at record rates.It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances.- Maria Bartiromo

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed along life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.- Cleveland Abbe

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone.Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.- Edmund Spenser

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing,but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.- Pierre Salinger

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.- Robert Louis Stevenson

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.- Jeanette Winterson

I'm trying to build a strong business.I want to create new stars, new shows and new productsfor my audience and create a legacy that outlives me.There are so many other ways I want to reach womenbesides doing a talk show.- Tyra Banks

Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?Expediency asks the question - is it politic?Vanity asks the question - is it popular?But conscience asks the question - is it right?And there comes a time when one must take a positionthat is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;but one must take it BECAUSE it is right.- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity,and their love to feed their pride.- Charles Caleb Colton

In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at along remove above the ordinary love and trustfulnessof a simple and pure heart.- Donald G. Mitchell

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase.I can with ease become an ordinary fool.I may be one now.But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.- Dylan Thomas

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.- George Sand

Large parties given to very young children...foster the passions of vanity and envy,and produce a love of dress and display which is veryrepulsive in the character of a child.- Susanna Moodie

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.- Jean de la Bruyere

There is something wrong about being photographed thathas nothing to do with vanity.- Nigella Lawson

She gave up beauty in her tender youth,gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways;she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity,and chose the bitter truth.- Christina Rossetti

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.- Jonathan Swift

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men,it is vanity.- Yousuf Karsh

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart,free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.- Thomas Carlyle

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable,and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed,even for the better.- E. M. Forster

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other,they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side;on the other,vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.- James Madison

All men dream, but not equally.Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds,wake in the day to find that it was vanity:but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men,for they may act on their dreams with open eyes,to make them possible.- T. E. Lawrence

I have a lot of vanity.- Jack Nicholson

The world is all a carcass and vanity,The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word,just nothing.- Michel de Montaigne

Solitude can be used well by very few people.They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it,and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.- Abraham Cowley

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly,all others are but vanity.- Robert Southey

When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit becausethey are so worried about their weight;it's a vanity issue and a mindset.- Loni Anderson

My vanity is not dead.I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry,but just because it is really funny how much I've changed.- Michael Zaslow

I imagine my children are going to save me from myvanity and be my passion and fill whatever fears Ihave of the amazing time I'm having right now being gone.- Gwen Stefani

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.- George Savile